the people that are lost to road traffic accidents are norormally young people, meanang not just the individual that suffers, but also their family, their relatives. narrator: road fatalities are a major priority for the world health organization, and we are halfway through the u.n. decade of action for road safety, which was launched in 201111. and onef the new global sustainable development goals, sgg number 3, aims to halve road deaths and injuries by 202020. hsi-pei and amy made their own contribution to enforcement and accountability by bringing a civil suit against the driver who knocked allison down. he's now barred from driving for 5 years and had to pay compensation. their campaign also helped bring in a new law, which means that drivers in new york now face criminal penalties for killing or injuring a pedestrian on a crosswalk. we know how to make our roads safer, but will change come quickly enough to spare more children like allison and inga, along with their families? [music] narrator: coming up on a future episode of "21st century"... in india, a chihild is abductctd ev